There were 212 reported incidents of racially motivated vandalism and harassment in Canada in 1997, according to B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights. The results represented a 13 percent decrease from the 244 incidents reported in 1996. The largest number of incidents last year, 98, were reported in Toronto.
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